Singapore

Cooling measures in Hong Kong and Singapore: what works, what doesn't

It would be fair to say that Singapore’s famously stringent cooling measures haven’t always made those inside the country’s real estate sector feel warm and fuzzy...

Continue Reading • 25 Apr 2018

S’pore strengthens cooperation with China on Belt and Road initiative

Singapore signed an agreement with China on Sunday (8 Apr) to improve cooperation on the latter’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...

Continue Reading • 9 Apr 2018

Singapore lords over world's most expensive cities

Singapore was rated the world’s most expensive city, marking five years in the top frame of the Worldwide Cost of Living Survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...

Continue Reading • 24 Mar 2018

1,400 people from Singapore have US$50m or more in net assets

Singapore's ultra-wealthy population surged to 1,400 individuals in 2017, up 18 percent from 1,190 the year before, according to Knight Frank's 2018 Wealth Report unveiled today...

Continue Reading • 8 Mar 2018

A housing bubble is unlikely, report

OrangeTee believes that Singapore will unlikely see a housing bubble even as property prices have increased amidst higher land cost and robust demand...

Continue Reading • 7 Mar 2018

Shorter waiting time for BTO flats

Young couples can look forward to getting their keys earlier for build-to-order (BTO) flats...

Continue Reading • 7 Mar 2018

Inside one of Singapore's strangest homes

From street level, number 2 Wilby Road in Singapore’s affluent Bukit Timah seems, if anything, nondescript compared to its grandiose neighbours...

Continue Reading • 5 Mar 2018

Pearl Bank’s looming demolition sparks soul-searching

With Pearl Bank serving as a reminder of Singapore’s intense development following its independence in 1965...

Continue Reading • 23 Feb 2018

S’pore 2nd least corrupt nation in Asia Pacific

Singapore emerged as the second least corrupt nation in Asia Pacific, according to Transparency International’s Corruptions Perceptions Index 2017...

Continue Reading • 23 Feb 2018

Buyer optimism returning to the Singapore residential market

The latest PropertyGuru Consumer Sentiment Survey gives one much to cheer about. Buyers’ sentiment is the highest since 2013...

Continue Reading • 22 Feb 2018

Engaging the right agent to sell your property

The generation of today has grown up with and is accustomed to buying and selling many things online on their own...

Continue Reading • 22 Feb 2018

Eye on Bidadari: From burial ground to boomtown

There was an outcry when it was announced that the historic Bidadari Cemetery would be exhumed to make way for a new housing estate...

Continue Reading • 22 Feb 2018

5 steps to attracting wealth for the home

Throughout the years of consulting residential Feng Shui, the most frequent question I get asked is: “Master, are there any Feng Shui solutions to get rich?

Continue Reading • 22 Feb 2018

32,000 households are in mortgage of 3 months or more

A drop in household income and prolonged unemployment or illness are among the common reasons why Singapore households fall into mortgage arrears...

Continue Reading • 20 Feb 2018

S’pore emerges as favoured investment destination for China’s super-rich

While Hong Kong continues to be the primary destination for China’s offshore money, more Chinese high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are looking at Singapore as a safe haven to park their wealth...

Continue Reading • 9 Feb 2018